BLET Secretary-Treasurer in Nevada Charged with Theft

On March 11, Patrick Cunningham, former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) Division 229, was charged in the Justice’s Court of Union Township, County of Humboldt, Nevada, with one count of theft of funds in an undisclosed sum from the Winnemucca union. The charge follows an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Labor-Management Standards.